John,

> Thank you. I will check it out in my office soon.
> Btw, do you meant the performance will be imrpoved if the actual path provided in USE statement?

As in our previous conversation I don't have a clue where the poor performance comes from, but I guess you've got to try to see which strategy is fast and which is slow. Using the direct patch notation will skip some browsing in the currect directory and maybe will improve your performance.

hope this helps

Walter,